«If the public were to follow guidelines to restrict sugar to 5 or 10 percent of daily calories, this would mean that profits
for junk food companies would fall by half.»
I agree we should not
give junk food companies «the opportunity to instill on a daily basis lifelong brand loyalties among a highly impressionable population, i.e., school children.»
Powerful junk food companies purchase «sustaining partnerships» from the American Society for Nutrition, gaining access to the nation's leading nutrition researchers at their annual meetings, and in their policy positions.
This is a David vs. Goliath fight, with consumers on one side and giant multi-national chemical and
junk food companies on the other.
Related healthcare stocks would fall, even crash, as pharmaceutical companies, and other healthcare - related stocks, along
with junk food companies and those associated with Big Sugar, could burst.
This can be great ammunition
for junk food companies that claim there is no research to confirm sugar is unhealthy, and keeps politicians from implementing useful policies directed at improving the health of their constituents (especially considering that Big Sugar lobbies overshadow them).
Junk food companies are capable of sacrificing everyone's health for the sake of profit and they will stop at nothing to promote their products far and wide with, sometimes the most indecent marketing.
Most people don't read ingredient labels, and don't realize how unethical and ruthless
the junk food companies can be.
We need to move beyond this antiquated Farm Bill that spends billions of taxpayer dollars to subsidize environmentally destructive commodity crops that feed factory farms and
junk food companies.